sayhellotocindy:

Survived another long day of investor meetings.

And, ugh, yes, I had a hangover from last night’s shin-dig w/ J-Man and the rest of the guys. I know better.

You look fabulous!

I have no plans. The people I’m closer to are going back to their families on Thanksgiving. I was thinking about spending a couple of days in Boston, or somewhere out of NYC and enjoying the experience of a new city in this incredible continent. Suggestions are welcome! What can a curious and explorative girl do in 4 days around NYC?

Way to go NYC marathoners!
It was so fun today with Cindy and Janelle and I was incredibly overwhelmed by of all of you. Screaming your names and seeing your smiles made me beam with pride.

Brenna and Michele, what can I say! You ladies rock my socks!

One day I’ll be just like you: badass marathoners, fierce and super cool!

Still here, still alive, still incredibly grateful to the world.

After another intense week of work and yoga and NYC awesomeness, I’m eating sushi rolls while watching Pretty Woman. 

Life is good to me :)

New Yorkers, wanna join me next week??

Dear Tumblrworld,

I have been absent for a while and I was a terrible blogger the last months. Please do forgive me. It has been (and still is) crazy and every day hass been full of new, exciting and overwhelming stuff. I moved to perhaps the most incredible city of the world, I started an inteernship that is challenging and very new for me, I’m learning a whole new language and discovering my skills and I’m basically living a whole new dimension. I have so many things to talk about and to share with whoever wants to know about them.

Let’s try to give my thoughts some order:

1. Today was my second fitness experience since I came here. the first one was at the gym of tthe building I’m living in right now. I just ran for a while and did a couple of other exercises with weights, but I wasn’t feeling very well that day.
   But today… it was perfect. I went with a friend to this place near Astor place, called yoga to the people, and I did my first yoga class ever. People… it was incredible. It felt incredible on my body and enlightning for my spirit, I worked a great sweat and felt fully energized and positive for the rest of the day. Besides, it has no fix cost: you just give a free donation every time you go there. i’ll definitely make it a fix appointment at least 3 times a week.
2. I started the internship on Thursday and I’m loving the work environment and the people. Everyone’s good to me, patient and helpful, they already made me work a lot and in two days I’ve learned a bunch of totally new stuff. It’s hard: it has a lot of new technical vocabulary I’m not ued to and sometimes it’s confusing for me. I’ve never worked in finance before and most of the time I really have to take it step by step to fully understand what certain tasks are made for and the meaning of the tools I have to use. I hope I’ll figure it all out soon, for now I’m incredibly grateful for where I am and what I’m doing.
3. My relationship with Bear is in an amazing place. I’ll leave it to that. I’m just feeling good, you know? I’m happy.
4. Yesterday I went out with a friend and two of her ex colleagues and we ended up in a bar in Noho drinking beer and talking about social networks and relationships, about how internet is easy and annulls barriers on the one hand, but makes us less sensitive towards human contact, instinct and intuitive body language on the other. During one of these passionate discussions, a waitress interrupts us bringing another round of drinks for us. She told us that a lady that was sitting alone at the table next to ours who had just left, told her to bring us drinks on her behalf, because she wanted to thank us for having entertained her with our interesting conversation. I asked if she left a number or a name, but the waitress annswered that she wanted to be alone and didn’t want to speak with anybody, only make this friendly jesture for us because she really appreciated out topics and conversation.
   I put this adecdote among the most amazing things that ever happened to me in my whole life.
5. I bought tickets to the opera at the MET and for the Forsythe choreography at the BAM festival. Anybody wants to come with?
6. My eating is totally under control. I’m so happy and positive, I don’t need unnecessary food to feel better. I love everything. I’m so grateful. thank you, lucky star.

So how have YOU been??

Love,

Susie

Handwritten during my dinner, in a HB Burger restaurant, in a peak of happiness and life.

I really feel this city gets me. I’ve been walking alone the entire afternoon along the streets and in Central Park and it just fits me perfectly like a glove. It makes me want to spread my arms, hold everything in sight and take it with me wherever I go. I want to live in it and know it by heart, every building, every tree, every brick. I wish I could stay here for good and be myself in it and live every feeling and emotion in this place, because everything seems more authentic here, more than any other place I’ve been.

Now I’m in a hamburger restaurant, and I’ve just finished the most delicious burger of my existence. For a loner like me, it feels incredible to enter restaurants by yourself and eat your meal alone. I’m a little tipsy after the delicious pumpkin beer I ordered and drank. Everyone is so polite and pleasant with me, well behaved and professional. It has no comparison with Italy. No wonder everyone wants to live here.

It is really an incredible city, and after barely 5 days in here, I’ve fallen head over heels, I’m in love. I want to marry New York City and treat her right until the end of my days. One day I’ll buy an apartment here and live here. I don’t know how or when, but I will. I’ve fallen in love with the geometry of Manhattan, with its tall, strong, imponent, yet friendly buildings. NYC is definitely a woman. A self confident, successful woman with personality, not aseptic, not cold, but unique, with a certain swing that seduces this European heart of mine.

On the one hand, this extraordinary female is regular and precise, with square angles, reliable and in a way, ferm like an organic tomato. It’s there for you, fair and square, impossible for you to get lost in it.

On the other hand, it’s changing by the day, thousands of different faces, opportunities and alternatives cross my path and it’s almost overwhelming. I’m sure many others felt and feel this way about NYC, but I feel the one and only for her. I feel like nobody else can understand what I’m feeling for her. I feel like this city was built just for me and everyting makes sense to me now that I set foot on it.

It’s the pretentious thought of a young mind, that still thinks that everything revolves around it. But I like to feel special for New York. I like to flatter myself thinking that I belong here. I don’t really care if it’s not true. These things I write… I feel. Nothing is going to take them away from me.

So I’ve been sick for the past 2 days: it started with a headache on the plane, then after two days of insanely cold A/C every time I enter shops and cafés, it has degenerated in a moderate flu and heavy cough.

I’ll stay home this morning and cure myself, reading a book and resting. Even if I should be pissed because I’m sick after 3 days in New York, it’s really impossible for me to be in a bad mood. I just can’t, life is too awesome. I’ll be better in no time.